queenship

English

Etymology

From queen +‎ -ship.

Noun

queenship (countable and uncountable, plural queenships)

  1. The rank, status, position, or dignity of a queen.
    Synonyms: queendom, queenhood
    Coordinate terms: kingship, kingdom, princess-ship, princessdom, princeship, princedom
    Near-synonym: queenliness
    • 1852 August, D. H. Jacques, “A Chapter on Names”, in The Knickerbocker, or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XL, page 117:
      In the home-circle and among her companions, Charlotte lays aside her queenship and becomes a gentle Lottie.
    • 1994, M. Lindsey Kaplan, Katherine Eggert, ““Good queen, my lord, good queen” - Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in “The Winter's Tale””, in Renaissance Drama‎[1], volume 25, →DOI, page 91 of 89–118:
      Elizabeth's queenship elicited her subjects' fantasies and fears that she was, as Shakespeare's Cleopatra puts it, “no more but e'en a woman,” and that a woman ruling over men would necessarily subject her entire realm to unbridled feminine sexual desire.

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